Payton's Crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. 3rd layer of the atmosphere, where most meteorites burn up.
- 4. The second-lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere.
- 11. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
- 12. accomplishment of completing a job with minimum use of time and effort
- 14. The envelope of gases that surrounds Earth.
- 16. The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
- 18. when a warm air mass meets and replaces an existing cool air mass causing steady rain
- 19. of rising warm air that usually bring wet, stormy weather.
- 20. A mass of sinking cool air that usually bring fair weather.
Down
- 1. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid. Forms clouds.
- 3. stored energy
- 5. KE + PE = ME
- 6. A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.
- 7. The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid or gas
- 8. A force that pulls objects toward each other
- 9. The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
- 10. Energy of motion
- 13. A narrow belt of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere
- 15. The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere.
- 17. process by which water changes from a liquid into an atmospheric gas